Emotional Intelligence

EQ has become an increasingly valuable metric that companies look for in prospective employees.

You are born with your IQ whereas EQ is developed through your experiences

IQ is what you can do whereas EQ is how and/or why you do it

if someone is depressed because they didn’t get a promotion, the empathy will try to cheer that person up and redirect them from the depressed state even if they don’t much care one way or the other. Empathy is the difference between listening to what someone is saying and understanding what they are feeling.

Self-regulation also makes it easier to put yourself in someone else’s shoes which increases the odds of a positive emotional response as opposed to a careless reaction.

Self-awareness will also make it easier to empathize with others.

Self-awareness: Simply put, self-awareness is the ability to recognize your own intuition, resources, preferences, internal states, and overall emotions.

Subjective/cognitive experience;

is what you can do whereas EQ is how and/or why you do it.

actually functions and interacts with other people.